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Re: Rants and Laughs

Sneakernets — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:03:45 -0000

That stress ball's looking mighty nice right about now.

Re: One bug report to rule them all

Sneakernets — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:24:52 -0000

I will have to admit something--- Joe was me a couple of years ago. Those times are long gone, but the scars are still there.

I'm going by past experiences, but the more I look now in launchpad the more I am reminded of the past-- where nothing was done, nothing was accomplished but some bickering in comments over who's fault it is.
And the "fixed" slice of the bug report pie is... so small you can barely see it. That pie should be all green.
Sorry, My past experiences with the FOSS community may seem especially "hostile". I apologise.

Re: One bug report to rule them all

Sneakernets — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:22:31 -0000

In the FOSS world, It's always the user's fault. Always(tm).

It's your fault you didn't compile your kernel with --fix-shit . Your computer clearly cannot take it. Surely it's your fault for buying OEM with faulty Celeron processors , even if we only found out it was fauty 8 years after the fact. You can't even build one yourself! Therefore, It's your fault that DRI doesn't work with your card. Don't even bother sending a report. Debian hasn't uploaded the fixes to Unstable, so even though it works, you're sooo screwed. It's also your fault that DVD playback is close to impossible. You can't go on Amazon and buy a region free DVD drive. It's your fault that resolutions under 640x480 look like a clusterfuck of lines. Should have gotten an Intel. How dare you use old hardware, Even though the promise of compatibility with older hardware was the reason you bit our bait in the first place. Because you are a slave to the MAN! You have no right to complain about "problems". Go back to being a poor, binary dependent Windows user. You have no right to complain. You have no right to complain. you stupid head!

Sound familiar?

With Businesses that make software, the User is always right. The Company actually cares for its users, as they hold the sweet moo-lah companies depend on.

Hell, In business period, the Customer is always right.

FOSStards do not have a business model. They have the Frat house model. the only Baseline is blasting out from awesome import sony subwoofers. When DRI support for a popular chipset in Laptops is assigned to a college student majoring in Theatre Arts (I wish I was making that up), with only a livejournal and dusty Mailing List as contact, You know someone had to be PARTYING HARD!

Maybe if you're lucky, you'll be able to contact that frat boy through his livejournal, as his E-Mail address doesn't exist anymore. Maybe he'll be nice enough to pull out a solo cup and offer a sip of the mighty Open source Beer (http://www.freebeer.org/).

Re: One bug report to rule them all

Sneakernets — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:16:19 -0000

Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers.

When Joe User is reporting a problem, He shouldn't be required to create an account. on Launchpad, or whatever bug tracker. All Joe User wants to do is send an Error Report. When he is redirected to a website to file a bug report, he notices the site is slow to load. this further annoys Joe. when Joe is finally finished submitting the report, he is notified that someone may have already reported the bug. What does he see?

dozens of reports JUST LIKE HIS.

Joe notices that many reports are classified as Triaged, not even acknoledged. Joe thinks that the maintainers and developers don't seem to care. Joe stops sending bug reports.

Sadly, Joe is probably right.
But Joe shouldn't worry, It'll get fixed... eventually.

If you have to "argue your case" as you did to get shit done, Joe user won't even bother. In fact, he'll ask his friend to reinstall "the windows".

It's not the bugtracker's fault. it definitely isn't Joe's fault. Who's fault is it?

Re: One bug report to rule them all

Sneakernets — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:36:50 -0000

You might need to go to the toilet to release the source.

Re: One bug report to rule them all

Sneakernets — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:35:18 -0000

You think that's bad, it's possible in Ubuntu, by reasons I cannot fathom, to break the Crash Reporter "Apport". That's right. And if you were stupid enough to betatest Gutsy, Ubuntu would attempt to open Apport to catch the backtrace on Apport.. and so on .. and so on.. until your computer decided to Cobain.

To any of the Bug reports that managed to get through at first? Triaged. Great job, fucks.

Another humorous yet frightening bug was when Hardy was in development, somebody, somehow, uploaded a bad build of Ulrich "Paymemoneytofixit" Drepper's GNU C Library, which seems to be the Power core to the FOSStard Death Star. What happened? well, just look yourself.

http://ubuntuforums.org/sho...

It's funny yet scary as hell in how easy it is to break this stuff.

Re: My browser needs 16 exabytes

Sneakernets — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:10:19 -0000

Did he say the entire OS?

No, he said the Browser. Nice try though. it makes people on the fence like me realise that you lusers are slowly losing sanity.

There is NO NEED for a browser to need more than a few GB. Unless you have 200 porn movies loaded ( wouldn't surprise me), or loading a website whose webmaster needs a bullet in the head(Momma said not to drink too much AJAX), I think a 32 bit browser is more than enough.

Of course, me being the stupid tech-impaired person, has really no interest in 64 bittiness in the first place. Reminds me of a Nintendo I had in middle school. Then I realise that it's MEMORY that is the main issue here, and let's be honest, 16 exabytes? What the fuck are you running, Mission control? Yeah, it's fun to poke fun at ol Billy and say that 640K as a limit was a bit nearsighted, but maybe he had something a bit different in mind. Limitations seem to have this great ability to make programmers do it RIGHT. Maybe it's the fear of running out of memory.

Even 4 GB I thought was too much. But not in the FOSS world. Some developers there must think a garbage collector is what drives up to pick up their weekly trash of doubleshot cans and pizza boxes.

Re: Rants heard 'round the community ver. 10

Sneakernets — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:32:24 -0000

Small little rant here. It's not enough for a mention I guess but it was enough to get my blood pressure up.

The "just works" shit that Ubuntu spews out like bait for the average joe to bite? Well, it's the finest example of bullshit I've ever come across. Even I bought into it.

Note that I"m one of those users whose friend was a freetard. Yes, to him, Linux was the goddamn bee's knees. After hearing about how good the audio software is coming up in Linux (must have been a complete lie), I was somehow convinced that Linux would be for me. After all, ZynAddSubFX sounded awesome!

So I was given Ubuntu to use.

My CD-ROM drive was broken, so he installed it via network cable or something. Ever since then I've been teaching myself this... "Linux" (GNU/Linux sounds gay to me honestly so I won't even say it) and the more I learn, the more I hate.

Everything was fine until I decided to try to find and download software to sequence AND PLAY MIDI files, which is required for an "intro to computer-generated music" class (only the elite get to use reason apparently). When I noticed--- there was little to NONE.

I wasn't able to play sequenced midi? Those things that are on every geocities page from the 90s?

I was shocked at first to find out that just playing a magyver midi would require installing a shitload of software, but sighed and went along with it. I found a small program called Qsynth, it was supposed to be a good synth program or something that took SF2 files. Sounds boss! I installed it.

Alright, it seems to be installed, that's good.

Now its' time to try it.

Uh... it's not working. I'll try again.
Still not working. Note that it's been about 2 hours downloading and trying shit at this point.

I give up and call my freetard friend. this is pretty much how the conversation went.
Me: "Hey, John, look, I can't get midi to work at all on Ubuntu."
Him: "Midi? What you need midi for?"
Me: "Uh, John, I do this for a living, it's never been this difficult to configure MIDI for a machine ever, not even in the 90s when I used SAMICK Hardware..."
Him: "You can't configure JACK?"
Me: "what the , you mean the MIDI Jack? I have one of those, dumm-"
Him: "You didn't configure JACK!"
Me: "what the CHRIST is JACK and why can't Ubuntu do what my computer from 1995 could do?!"
Him: "Oh, that? get timidity."
Me: "Look, uhhh.. I've already decided if I need to use MIDI, I'll use Windows, at least it can handle it, All I'm-"
Him: "OH it's so hard to do that! ugh it's so hard to plug in the keyboard and configure Jack!"
Me: "What the hell is JACK?"
Him: "Nevermind. Why are you using Midi files anyway? Use Reason."
Me: "Oh yeah this JUST WORKS doesn't it?"
Him: "Works for me. RTFM, n00b."

Now I know how the Incredible Hulk Feels.

I install Timidity out of curiosity and notice that it, as I expected, sucks. I can't specify my own SF2 files (it does this Gravis Ultrasound-like Bullshit), the patches that Ubuntu supplied with it are total ass, and futhermore, it's a software synth, which negates the reason for having a decent sound card in the first place!

Out of sheer interest at this point (because I was sure to do this when I had nothing else left to do) I installed a classic SoundBlaster, In hopes that I'd be able to, at LEAST, have OPL synthesis.

No dice. Nada. Nothing. NO sound at all.

I have never felt such rage in months. Apparently Midi is deprecated to the FOSStards like a 6 month old gnome dev module. But, Goddamnit, AMIGA Modules play without a hitch in Nautilus just by mousing over them!!1

Ubuntu 'Just Works' doesn't it? If by "works" they mean "Fails in every possible way to provide a friendly user experience", then they've got it down to a T!